All on one card - stamping, die cutting, stencilling, foiling and dry embossing! Handmade foiled butterfly card by Debby Hughes.

I love the look of foil, but haven’t pulled out my Glimmer machine as often as I’d like. With the new Yay You release from Simon Says Stamp having a wonderful selection of foiling options, I got my self set up and had a play. I used the smooth 130lb white card from Simon to get lovely clean foiled results, but then when I wanted to pair the butterfly I chose with a background I had, I switched to foiling on watercolour card. You don’t get as clean a result, but it fits with my style more. 

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all on one card!

Having, a beautiful foiled butterfly, I die cut with the matching die and then started playing around with other things on my desk. I found a background I’d made  when making this card – it uses the Soft Plaid Background stamped with watercolours and lots of water and splatter too. 

All on one card - stamping, die cutting, stencilling, foiling and dry embossing! Handmade foiled butterfly card by Debby Hughes.

The foiling plates are great for foiling as you’d expect LOL but they are also great for dry embossing. I ran the Intricate Floral Background plate through with an embossing sandwich and watercolour card. You get a lovely deeply etched impression of the plate. I cut a piece of this along with a slither of Gold Mirror card and then started playing around with possible arrangements.

All on one card - stamping, die cutting, stencilling, foiling and dry embossing! Handmade foiled butterfly card by Debby Hughes.

I decided on a focal point top left of the card and to emphasise this and bring in more interest I used the Arches stencil and some Opaque Matte Texture Paste to give an extra layer of dimension and draw the eye to the butterfly.

All on one card - stamping, die cutting, stencilling, foiling and dry embossing! Handmade foiled butterfly card by Debby Hughes.

Here, you can see the light catching the foil and showing off the dry embossed flower layer too. I put everything together on a Desert Storm card base with foam adhesive popping each layer up.

All on one card - stamping, die cutting, stencilling, foiling and dry embossing! Handmade foiled butterfly card by Debby Hughes.

I finished off with a few gold sequins and white enamel dots.

All on one card - stamping, die cutting, stencilling, foiling and dry embossing! Handmade foiled butterfly card by Debby Hughes.

Just look at that shine and dimension too! I can see my foiling machine staying on my desk from now on.

All on one card - stamping, die cutting, stencilling, foiling and dry embossing! Handmade foiled butterfly card by Debby Hughes.

For the greeting, I picked a sentiment from the Reverse Wedding Sentiment Strips set, trimmed it out popped it on top with more foam tape.

more inspiration

You're cute as a strawberry! Handmade watercoloured bear card by Debby Hughes.

Here’s a card I shared the other day using the cute Strawbeary set which is also in the Yay You release.

blog hop

As mentioned above, to celebrate the Yay You release from Simon Says Stamp, this post is part of a blog hop. Hopefully, you’ve arrived here from Laura’s blog but if not then a good place to start is Simon’s blog. As with all good hops, there are offers and giveaways.

  • Use code BEAUTY to get the Beautiful die set FREE with purchase of $25 or more! This promotion will expire 5/15 at 11:59 pm EDT.
  • Simon is giving away a $25 coupon from comments left on each stop of the hop. Winners will be announced on the Simon blog on 18th May. 

Now it is time to hop on over to Jennifer’s blog. Here’s the full hop list to keep you on track.

Simon Says Stamp Blog

Laura Bassen

Debby Hughes

Jennifer McGuire

Amanda Korotkova

Amy Rysavy

Barbara Tarayao

Bibi Cameron

Emily Midgett

Miriam Prantner

Alberto Gava

Heather Hoffman

Vicky Papaioannou

Lea Lawson

Jennifer Kotas

Sandi MacIver

Seeka

Jennifer Kotas

Sandi MacIver

Seeka

supplies

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* SSS Stencils ARCHES
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* SSS SOFT PLAID BACKGROUND
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* SSS Sentiment Strips REVERSE WEDDING
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Ranger TEXTURE PASTE Opaque Matte
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Tim Holtz DISTRESS PALETTE KNIFE 2 PACK
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Finetec MICA WATERCOLOR PEARLESCENT...
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* SSS Sequins AUTUMN SKY
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Gold Card
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* SSS MEGA THICK WHITE CARDSTOCK 130lb
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* Spellbinders GLIMMER HOT FOIL SYSTEM
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misti at Simon Says STAMP!
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Tim Holtz Tonic GLASS MEDIA MAT
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Dahle Self-Healing Cutting 9x12 Mat
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Tim Holtz Tonic GUILLOTINE
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METAL EDGE ACRYLIC RULER
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Crafter's Companion CRAFT KNIFE
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T SQUARE RULER
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Scor-Pal Mini Scoring Board
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SSS SMALL TEFLON BONE FOLDER
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* Tim Holtz MINI SNIPS Scissors
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Fiskars SPRING-ASSIST SCISSORS Micro-tip
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TWEEZERS
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3M DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE
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Gina K Designs CONNECT GLUE
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Crafter's Companion GEMINI JUNIOR...
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